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Many of us have been there – you decided last minute to head to a game and you just try to pick up some tickets outside – or something comes up and you have to try and get rid of your tickets. As Matt Galka tells us, a bill moving through the legislature would make sure fans still have the ability to do that without being punished by teams or venues.

Tim Center’s been a lifelong Tampa Bay Buccaneers fan.

“We’ve had season tickets since day one. I used to sell peanuts in the stands with the Cub Scouts,” he said.

Now a season ticket holder living in Tallahassee, Center makes his best effort to get to every game, but it’s not always possible. Center believes he has every right to sell his tickets and let someone else go if he can’t.

“The ability to transfer my ticket to somebody else is a need because I’ve got to recoup a little bit of that that money, it’s almost $100 bucks a game, expensive, so to do that and get a ticket to somebody is awesome,” he said.

Lawmakers are pushing a bill that would prevent a team or artist from punishing fans who resell. The bill has already moved through one House committee.

“This would prevent a team from taking away your season tickets mid stream or punishing you, that’s one example,” said Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Coral Springs).

The proposal has big secondary market support from ticket reseller StubHub. But box office giant Ticketmaster is opposed.

The bill flies in the face of what the Tampa Bay Lightning tried to do during their Stanley Cup Playoff run last year when the team threatened to cancel future seats for ticket holders if they tried to resell them.